Posted on 01/12/2017 10:05:30 AM PST by blam
Julia Limitone
January 12, 2017
Linda Bean on calls for L.L. Bean boycott: It's bullying L.L. Bean Board Member and Co-Owner Linda Bean on calls for a boycott of the company because of her support for President-elect Donald Trump and the state of the U.S. economy.
Linda Bean, the granddaughter and co-owner of L.L. Bean, on Thursday said U.S. businesses are under attack and being bullied by anti-Trump groups.
A group, Grabyourwallet.org, called for a boycott of L.L. Bean after Linda Bean, one of 50 family members that own the outdoor apparel maker, contributed $60,000 to a political action committee supporting President-elect Donald Trump. The Federal Election Commission said the donation exceeded the PACs individual donor limit of $5,000.
Its bullying, Bean told the FOX Business Networks Maria Bartiromo. They want to control how we spend our money, what we buy, where we buy it. Thats wrong, its un-American.
Shortly after her appearance on Fox Business, Trump tweeted a thank you to Linda Bean and urged customers to buy L.L. Bean.
Grabyourwallet.org is calling for boycotts on 38 stores including Walmart, Bloomingdales and Macys that carry Trump products, are supportive of Trump, are owned by Trump or are normalizing Trump.
I gave the donation personally to a pact to support Trump, she said. We should have that privilege. We live in America. Its a free country.
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I did say “organized boycotts.”
Write them again and suggest Chris Plante
The local L. L. Bean store here in Maine used to have a number of catalogs for men’s clothing, women’s clothing, children’s clothing, camping, fishing, etc. Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer catalogs.
A few years ago they stopped carrying them. When I asked, they said they don’t have them anymore.
Maybe it’s just my local store that stopped carrying them, or maybe they only send them outside of Maine. Who knows.
I wish they still offered them in my local area.
private mail me if you find something I have a 10 buck gift card ready to expire I ll send you the numbers
My mom has ordered from their catalog since I was a kid, she’s 84. They’d be foolish to drop the print catalog in it’s entirety just yet. There are many, many more just like her. I’ve shown her the website, and how to use it. There are even products on the site that aren’t in a given catalog. But, she’s unaccustomed and needs to do it the way she’s always done it. They did remove the mail-in order form, though. She has to call it in, which is to her an annoyance. Me, I get annoyed having to write a paper check or trying to find a postage stamp. Generational differences.
We can do it too.
Since I last posted to you, my sister informed me that L.L. Bean discontinued giving out the catalogs in their stores, but they are still available by mail. Until today, I didn’t know that.
I can see the upside of using the web site. The web site can be updated in minutes or hours, whereas a catalog would take weeks or months to update.
Many people, like your mom, like to thumb through a mail order catalog rather than logging on to a web site. As you said, it’s probably a generational thing.
Here in Maine, a forester told me that the wood pulp market right now is dead, because not many people are subscribing to newspapers anymore and the printing of magazines and mail order catalogs is way down. End result: a lack of demand for wood pulp.
Years ago, I visited the L.L. Bean Store in Freeport, Maine.
Their Freeport store is MUCH larger than their other stores, and there are glass cases on display which show the antique fishing gear, hunting gear, and other outdoor items that were once owned by L.L. Bean. Really cool to look at it. It’s on display, but of course, not for sale.
Freeport is the flagship store. They get a lot of spillover from the big outlet centers in Kittery, too.
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